Countries
Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia.
  
India, Nepal
  
National Language
Ethiopia
  
Nepal
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Republic of Brazil
  
Speaking Continents
Africa
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
People's Republic of China
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Language Academy of Nepal
  
Interesting Facts
- Amharic ranks as second most spoken Semitic language in the world.
- Amharic has its own writing system named “fidel” and it uses Amharic alphabets to write.
  
- Before the term "Nepali" was coined, historically the language was first called the Khas language, Gorkhali or Gukhali.
- Nepali has borrowed many loanwords from neighboring Tibeto-Burmese languages.
  
Similar To
Not Available
  
Hindi
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
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Nepali-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Ethiopic
  
Devanagari
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Selam
  
नमस्ते (namaste)
  
Thank You
amesege'nallo'
  
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
  
How Are You?
Dehina newot?
  
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
  
Good Night
Dehna dur
  
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
  
Good Evening
melkam meshe't
  
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
  
Good Afternoon
i'ndemin walu
  
Good afternoon
  
Good Morning
i'ndemin adäru
  
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
  
Please
i'bakwon
  
कृपया
  
Sorry
aznallehu
  
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
  
Bye
tschao
  
नमस्ते (namaste)
  
I Love You
afekirishalehu
  
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
  
Excuse Me
yiqirta
  
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
  
Dialect 1
Gondar
  
Doteli
  
Where They Speak
Gondar
  
Nepal
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Gojjami
  
Bajhangi
  
Where They Speak
Ethiopia
  
India, Nepal
  
Dialect 3
Showa
  
Baitadeli
  
Where They Speak
Ethiopia
  
Nepal
  
How Many People Speak?
18.70 million
  
99+
30.00 million
  
36
Native Speakers
25.00 million
  
32
25.00 million
  
32
Second Language Speakers
10.00 million
  
23
5.00 million
  
29
Native Name
Not Available
  
नेपाली (nēpālī)
  
Alternative Names
Abyssinian, Amarigna, Amarinya, Amhara, Ethiopian
  
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
  
French Name
amharique
  
népalais
  
German Name
Amharisch
  
Nepali
  
Pronunciation
[amarɨɲɲa]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Amharas
  
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
  
Origin
13th century
  
19 BC
  
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Semitic
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Ethiopic
  
Indic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Ge'ez
  
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
  
Standard Forms
Amharic
  
Nepali
  
Signed Forms
Signed Amharic
  
Signed Nepali
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual, Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
am
  
ne
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
amh
  
nep
  
ISO 639 2/B
amh
  
nep
  
ISO 639 3
amh
  
npi
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
amha1245
  
nepa1254
  
Linguasphere
12-ACB-a
  
12
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
  
Agglutinative
  
Amharic and Nepali Speaking population
Amharic and Nepali speaking population is one of the factors based on which Amharic and Nepali languages can be compared. The total count of Amharic and Nepali Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Amharic language is 0.37 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Nepali language is 0.25 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Amharic and Nepali on Amharic vs Nepali where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Amharic and Nepali Language Codes
Amharic and Nepali language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Amharic and Nepali Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.